Mud-guard for road-wheels.



L. FIGHTER.

MUD GUARD FOR ROAD WHEELS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, 1914.

1,095,566. Patented 5,1914.

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L. HTER- MUD GUAR R0 HEELS.

APPLICATION FILED l, 1914.

Patented 5,1914.

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LUDWIG FIGHTER, OF MUNICH, GERMANY.

MUD-GUARD FOR ROAD-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent. l

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed February 21, 1914. 4 Serial No. 820,130.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUDWIG FIGHTER,

citizen of Germany, residing at Munich,v

Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mud- Guards for Road-Vheels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mud-guards for road wheels, of the type wherein the guard consists of a hood covering or partly inclosing the rearpart of the wheel and forming a channel extending around part of the circumference of the wheel. \Vith guards of this type a stream of air, admitted above the sweep, sweeps downward through the said channel, against the stream of dust which is thrown upward into the channel by the wheel. It. has been found with guards of this type that the downward stream of air largely prevents the dust from entering the channel, and causes a cloud of dust to rise behind the guard, which is objectionable.

The object of my invention is to obviate this disadvantage. To this end I provide the hood at the bottom with a transverse wall, arranged so that the downward stream of air passes out of the funnel through the passage. behind this wall, the dust being freely admitted to theflhood in front of the wall. 1 i f The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows various embodiments thereof.

Figure 1 is a side view, showing one form of construction in section. Fig. 2 is a rear view, showing another form of construction. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a motor car with a guard such as shown in Fig. 1 applied to the visible rear wheel, and a guard such as shown in Fig. 2 applied to the visible front whcel. Fig. at is a side view, part-1y in section, showing another embodiment, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a car with guards such as shown in Fig. 4.

Referring in the first instance to Fig. 1, the guard consists of a hood a, partly inclosing the rear of the wheel, and having in its lower part a transverse wall I), bent into the shape of an irregular arch separating two passages c and (Z at the bottom of the hood. The latter is open at. a to the stream of air above the wheel, so that. this air sweeps downward through the hood. The dust thrown up by the wheel enters the hood through the passage d and passes upward along the front surface of the wall I), as indicated by ,an arrow. It then encounters the downward stream of air, by which it is deflected and carried out of the hood through the passage 0, as indicated by arrows. The hood a is cut away at the bottom, behind the wall I) so that the bottom edge of the hood at the back is above the level of the bot-tom edges of the wall I). This allows of freer exit of dust.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the hood, designated a has a lateral twistat its lower part, so that the discharge passage behind the transverse wall, designated [1 lies at the side of the wheel track, and the dust disturbed by the front wheel is not discharged into the path of the rear wheel.

Fig. 3 shows the guards a and a used in conjunction with each other and connected by a curved mud guard member 6.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4, the hood a is partly closed at the bottom by an arched transverse Wall (P, which leaves at the rear a discharge passage or funnel for the dust, but extends to the front edge of the hood.

Fig. 5 shows the hood a applied to a rear wheel, and joined by a guard member e to a hood a which is applied to the front wheel and is of similar construction, with the exception that the lower rear part is bent aside, for the purpose already explained with reference to Fig. 2.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A mud .guard for vehicle wheels, comprising a. hood open at one side and completely closed at its opposite side, a transverse re versely inclined wall at, the base of the guard and extending upwardly into the same, the rear port-ion of the base of the guard being deflected laterally and there being a downwardly directed opening immediately adjacent said wall at one side thereof.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signat ire in the presence of two witnesses.

LUDVVIG FIGHTER.

Vitnesses BERTA FIOHTER, A. V. V. Co'r'rnn. 

